Who believes that streets Art and graffiti are signs of social protest in Iran?”
Located next to a Tehran walkway, the stickers show images that are antithetical to Iran’s clerical regime. One shows a three-breasted woman in a bikini. Another shows a young man in a leather jacket holding a sign that says, “Peace.” The stickers are illegal to post, but that doesn’t stop artists from attaching them to Iran’s walls and passageways, taking photos of their handiwork, and uploading them on web sites that attract people from around the world. Act locally, think globally – that’s one apparent motto of Iran’s street artists, who risk arrest to showcase their work on public buildings and surfaces in Tehran, Tabriz and other cities. “It’s simply art,” Raha Kootah, an Iranian photographer who documents the work at http://irangraffiti.blogspot.com/, tells me via email from Iran. Kootah says the blog site promotes the graffiti and other artwork as “a positive act in social and individual life.” In other words, the im
True/Slant: On streets of Iran, art and graffiti are signs of social protest bye Jonathan Curiel Located next to a Tehran walkway, the stickers show images that are antithetical to Iran’s clerical regime. One shows a three-breasted woman in a bikini. Another shows a young man in a leather jacket holding a sign that says, “Peace.” The stickers are illegal to post, but that doesn’t stop artists from attaching them to Iran’s walls and passageways, taking photos of their handiwork, and uploading them on web sites that attract people from around the world. Act locally, think globally – that’s one apparent motto of Iran’s street artists, who risk arrest to showcase their work on public buildings and surfaces in Tehran, Tabriz and other cities. “It’s simply art,” Raha Kootah, an Iranian photographer who documents the work at http://irangraffiti.blogspot.com/, tells me via email from Iran. Kootah says the blog site promotes the gra
